June 1, 2016 The Goo Goo Dolls. Steve Perry. Pearl Jam. Air Supply. The Santiago Airport is jamming to the 70s, 80s and 90s US hits. After a delirious trip through a mood-lit Bogota airport onto my flight to Chile, I’m feeling particularly time warped. The trip started with me miscalculating the tram system at […]
I’m back in Orlando after a two-fer bucket list trip. As I write this, I’ve already contemporaneously drafted most of the “missing days” posts that didn’t get posted on the day due to wonky internet issues. The other reasons being I still need to fact check a few names and places and I didn’t have […]
Today’s the day me and my big giant head set off for Easter Island, or as I prefer to call it, Rapa Nui. Or at least, I THOUGHT that’s what I should call it. Googling the Wikipedia entry on Easter Island provides background on the name for this island, one of the most remote inhabited […]
How did I get here? That was a refrain throughout the long night’s journey into day that was this past weekend. Having landed in Spokane, I was struck by how relatively smoothly I got out of the airport. We were a little early in arriving so my rental car counter was still open. They were […]
The text that follows was written at 9:17 PM on May 28, 2016. This day, May 29th, has essentially just been a very long extension of Saturday. This rambling prose was written before the 12:30 AM blueberry muffin pancakes at a Spokane Denny’s. It was also written before I was scrunched up in the backseat […]
Today I was supposed to be in San Diego for the Avocado Half Marathon. Unfortunately the race organizers lost their permit and had to cancel/reschedule for a time in September when I can’t do it. After a bit of credit card rigmarole, I *think* I’ve finally gotten my registration fee refunded. A shame, as I […]
There’s a theorem. Or maybe it’s a rule. Actually it’s more of a guideline than a rule. In any case, when you are carrying a completely filled to the top cup of hot coffee you have two choices — OPTION 1: walk ever so slowly, trying to hold your hand steady and invariably sloshing scaldingly […]
Oh, fudge. I’ve been eyeing this race for years now. And today was the day I finally pulled the trigger on my Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle. Today, I’m registered for A Christmas Story 10K. I had previously bought off of eBay a bunny suit to run in. And a quick […]
I drove my brother to the airport today. It’s 13 miles from my house, so the roundtrip was about a marathon’s distance. It took me almost 2 hours to make the journey thanks to traffic and lights. Steve has often asked me if I could run somewhere faster than I could drive. While that isn’t […]
Impulse registration. It’ll be in April 2017 when I’ve already got a number of events lined up… and hopefully one very important one in Boston on Monday April 17th. But it doesn’t conflict with anything I already have on the books… and they knew just how to market to me. A dollar a mile? Sold, […]